The name of Basque pelota includes several ball games that take place in a playground called the cancha and are played against a front: it includes a variety of specialties such as the bare hand, the limpio (or chistera joko garbi), the cesta punta, the paleta leather and pala corta which is played with a wooden pala, the hollow rubber paleta which is played with an exotic wooden paleton, the full rubber paleta, the most famous specialty, xare, pasaka, which is one of the oldest Basque pelota specialties, rebot, which is played by teams on a pediment in a free place, or frontenis, a hybrid specialty between tennis and pelota.
Basque pelota is a non-contact and a variation of a racket sport. Basque Pelota (pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan, or pelote in French) is known as the fastest sport in the world. It is mainly played in just a few countries: in Spain and France, especially in the Basque Country and its neighboring areas. It is also popular in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Perú and Uruguay.
The game is also operated as a gaming enterprise called Jai Alai in this part of the world, and it is often seen in southern parts of the USA.
The main objective of the sport is playing with one hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket against a wall, which is also called frontis or fronton.
This sport is usually played between two teams, 토토 with two players, and the court is separated by a line on the ground or a net.
The governing body, The International Federation of Basque Pelota, has created standard rules for different varieties into four modalities and fourteen disciplines. This includes fix weights of balls, and also fixed court sizes.
There is a Basque Pelota World Championship which is organized every year, with France the most successful team.
Basic Rules
The basic principle in hand-pelota is that there are two teams of two players each. The team to serve bounces the ball, then propels it towards the playing area of the narrow, front wall where it has to rebound between the low line demarcating the low off-area and the high line demarcating the high off-area.
The ball may either be played so it rebounds directly off the front wall onto the playing floor or onto the long side wall first. The opposing team may either play the ball immediately after rebounding from the front wall or side wall without rebounding from the playing floor or after having rebounded from the playing floor once.
A team scores by:
playing the ball in such a way that the opposing team is unable to play the ball before it has rebounded off the playing floor more than once.
playing the ball in such a way that it rebounds off the front wall and rebounds off the floor and outside the playing area.
A team may also score by the opposing team:
hitting the front wall but either below the low line or above the high line.
hitting the ball in time but failing to reach the front wall.